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Since I stopped doing the Top 40 Philosophy podcast, I also lost ownership of the top40philosophy.com domain and stopped paying for file hosting. However, I…
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1. “Brueggemann” Is a Good Name While reading his article, “David and His Theologian” (The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 30 [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top”…
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TLC had the #2 and #3 songs for 1995. We’ve already covered “Waterfalls,” (which argued — against the year’s #1 song, “Gangsta’s Paradise” — that…
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Background If people know anything about rap, it’s that there’s some kind of feud between East Coast and West Coast rappers. Or, at least, there…
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At the end of February, 1995, Live’s “Lightning Crashes” kicked Green Day’s “When I Come Around” out of the #1 spot on Billboard’s Alternative Songs…
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Green Day’s “When I Come Around” went #1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, the first week of January, 1995. It stayed there for seven…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that you should always talk about music from twenty years ago. Since it is now 2015, that means we…
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One last hurrah! Yesterdy we covered the first half of the Top 10 “Top 40 Philosophy” posts from 2014. Today, to begin 2015, we have…
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Over the past two days, we brought you the top 10 non-musical posts from 2014. Now it’s time for the Top 10 “Top 40 Philosophy”…
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Merry Christmas! Thanks for choosing to spend it with Top 40 Philosophy. Read every entry. Stay here the whole day. The fourth classic Christmas Special…
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The third classic Christmas Special on TIME’s list of the “10 Greatest” is “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” This means, of course, that we have…
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The second classic Christmas Special on TIME’s list of the “10 Greatest” specials is “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” So, for today, let’s talk about Vince…
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It’s Christmas week, which makes me want to do more Christmas songs. So, let’s philosophize about some songs from the great “Christmas Specials” that have…
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One more day of Rawk. Song #5 on Billboard’s “Mainstream Rock Songs” chart — when I started this post (the new charts are released on…
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Today we have a song by the grunge revivalists from South Africa who call themselves “Seether.” Song #4 on Billboard’s “Mainstream Rock Songs” chart is…
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On Monday, we had a song about creation. On Tuesday, a song about heaven. Today, a song about royal blood. Evidently, it’s still Christmas here…
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Song #2 on Billboard’s “Mainstream Rock Songs” chart this week is “Wrong Side of Heaven,” by Five Finger Death Punch. I’ve never found 5FDP’s music…